Women's Studies
The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
Paperback
An insightful and provocative exploration of the relationship between motherhood and art through the lives of women artists and writers
The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society
Hardback
A vibrant and illuminating exploration of medieval thinking on women’s beauty, sexuality and behaviour
When Women Ruled the World: Making the Renaissance in Europe
Paperback
A leading Renaissance scholar shows in this revisionist history how four powerful women redefined the culture of European monarchy in the glorious sixteenth century
The Heroine with 1001 Faces
Paperback
World-renowned folklorist Maria Tatar reveals an astonishing but long-buried history of heroines, taking us from Cassandra and Scheherazade to Nancy Drew and Wonder Woman
Still Mad: American Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination
Paperback
A brilliant, sweeping history of the contemporary women’s movement told through the lives and works of the literary women who shaped it